Located in Queensland-Australia, The Marcus Beach house celebrates a natural Contemporary Sustainable lifestyle to unfold. Designed by BARK Design Architects and built by Wall’s Quality Homes Builder, this great beach house was open and light and possesses simple sustainable design principles to passively defend the occupants from the elements. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The garden is protected by a perimeter wall wrapped in endemic vines providing an acoustic ‘green’ buffer to a nearby busy road.

Contemporary Sustainable Beach House Exterior by BARK Design Architects

The main pavilion to the west accommodates living spaces focused around a double height deck space overlooking the swimming pool and northern garden. The Master Bedroom suite is accessed via a polycarbonate clad stair tower that is by day a contemplative space and by night, a lantern. The Moreton Bay Ash casts shadows onto the polycarbonate further animating the edges of the courtyard and bringing the landscape inside the house. The courtyard and Moreton Bay Ash are a focal point in which almost all rooms within the dwelling enjoy a connection.

Marcus Beach House Entrance Design

The recent additions of a study ‘pop out,’ enclosed passage link below the bridge, Laundry and Powder room further animate the edges of the courtyard space whilst responding to the needs of its new occupants. Windows and doors are strategically positioned to capture the prevailing breezes whilst roof overhangs are generous protecting the house from direct summer sunlight. Air conditioning has not been installed in the Marcus Beach House nor is it desired. The roof over the Master Bedroom pavilion rises to the north providing a band of high level, operable, clerestory glazing capturing daylight and allowing any warm air to escape, setting up an effective ‘stack effect’ natural cooling process.

2 Floors Beach House by BARK Design Architects

Beach House Windows Design

Sustainable Marcus Beach House Swimming Pools

Marcus Beach House Small Hall Design

Contemporary Beach House Staircase Design

Contemporary Sustainable Marcus Beach House Interior Living Room

Marcus Beach House Private Library by BARK Design Architects

Beach House Interior Dining Room Design

Contemporary Beach House Home Office

Sustainable Marcus Beach House Backyard Garden

Beach House Landscape by BARK Design Architects

Sustainable Beach House Floor Plan by BARK Design Architects

The picture above is taken by Photographer Christopher Frederick Jones.
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